Tennessee lawmakers have taken steps to improve access to dental care in the state with two bills: Senate Bill 2075 and SB 677. SB 2075 aims to broaden dental care access by allowing a dentist to supervise up to five dental hygienists, up…

The classification of workers in California faces further complexity with the introduction of a United States Department of Labor rule effective March 11, requiring employers nationwide to use a detailed multifactor analysis for determining…

Researchers have developed a solution for diagnosing and treating oral bacterial infections using a chemical sensor array, dubbed an “artificial tongue.” Published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, the study introduces a…

After myriad complaints from individuals incarcerated at Alaska’s Goose Creek Correctional Center about inadequate dental care, the state ombudsman, Kate Burkhart, decided to investigate. Complaints ranged from delaying treatment of an…

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health has allocated $1.25 million in funding to 10 organizations to address systemic barriers to oral health for people with disabilities. The recipients are the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry…

The Dakota College Downtown in Minot, North Dakota, is set to launch dental assisting and dental hygiene programs, transforming former Trinity Health offices into modern classrooms and cutting-edge dental stations. Collaborating with Minot…

Kwane Watson, DMD, who graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry, became starkly aware of the lack of dental providers in Kentucky serving disadvantaged populations when he served as the state dental director for…

Milwaukee’s Marquette University School of Dentistry and the Medical College of Wisconsin are collaborating to bring medicine and dentistry together on the issue of temporomandibular disorder (TMD), which causes pain and dysfunction in the…

The California Dental Association (CDA) continues its push for dental benefit plan reform with the introduction of SB 1369, sponsored legislation aimed at addressing coercive fee collection practices associated with virtual credit card…

Delta Dental’s 2024 Original Tooth Fairy Poll discloses a 6% decrease in the average value of a lost tooth, marking the first year-over-year decline in Tooth Fairy giving in 5 years, with the value dropping from $6.23 to $5.84. Even the…